Jason Buss the VP of Talent Acquisition at Ameriprise Financial (Fortune 296) wrote recently a posting on what was in the mind of the Fortune 500 talent acquisition leaders.

The full posting here.

The section that we like:

Over the past month at a couple of networking and educational sessions I’ve
had the opportunity to spend time with 50 other Fortune 500 Recruiting
Executives and Leaders. The time, the networking, and the conversation were
all invaluable. So, what’s on the top of everyone’s mind?
[...]
Reference Checks: There was a lot of discussion in using services for
background checks. The one company that everyone was talking about was
Checkster, and the value they’ve seen from their investment in addition to
the capacity it’s given recruiters to do their day job… Recruit.